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Subject: Webhelp - namespace issue with DocBook XSL 1.79.0

From: Andy Hatton <andy.hatton@oracle.com>
To: DocBook Apps <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:31:42 +0000

Hi

I am seeing an issue with the XHTML namespace when outputting Webhelpusing the DocBook XSL 1.79.0 sylesheets.

(The issue also affects version 1.78.1).

With the titlepage templates, I am seeing an empty xmlns attributeoutput on the containing div, and all the titles have an additionalXHTML namespace declaration, which isn't needed because that is alreadyoutput on the <html> element. For example:


<div xmlns="" class="titlepage">
  <div>
    <div><h1 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; class="title">
         <a id="preface"></a>Preface</h1>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

This causes the XHTML output to be invalid.

Adding the default XHTML namespace declaration(xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";) to thewebhelp/xsl/titlepage.templates.xsl file fixes the problem.

I noticed the default namespace declaration was also missing fromwebhelp/xsl/webhelp.xsl and webhelp/xsl/webhelp-common.xsl, and thesefiles might also need it although I've not seen any ill effects.


It would be great if this could be fixed for the 1.79.1 release.

Thanks

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [docbook-apps] Webhelp - namespace issue with DocBook XSL 1.79.0
  - From: Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>